Re: [oldboys] Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> - call for submissions

[shu lea cheang <shulea@earthlink.net>]

Since we do respect artists and authors..
it is their right to decide their work copyleft, not corporation.

sl


>Kind of odd that a "piracy" project would copyright contributors????
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>On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Cornelia Sollfrank wrote:
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>>  Kingdom of Piracy <KOP>
>>  Online Exhibition
>>  http://kop.adac.com.tw
>>
>>  Acer Digital Art Center, Taiwan
>>  Joint Curation: Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata
>>  Pilot launch: december , 2001
>>  Onsite exhibition: March, ArtFuture2002
>>
>>  Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is an online, open work space which explores
>>  piracy as the net's ultimate art form. Hosted by the Acer Digital Art
>>  Center [ADAC] in Taiwan as part of ArtFuture 2002, [KOP] will include
>>  links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists' projects,
>>  critical writing and online streaming media events. The exhibition
>>  will launch a pilot website in December 2001, and during the
>>  following three months the project's curators will begin a process of
>>  commissioning projects and written work. While remaining an online
>>  exhibition, the totality of the workspace will be presented on site
>>  in ArtFuture 2002, to be held in Taiwan in March. An edition of all
>>  works commissioned will be kept on the ADAC server as an open-ended
>>  online exhibition, whilst artists and authors will remain sole
>>  copyright owners of their works.
>>
>>  With the increasing shift towards an immaterial or 'weightless'
>>  economy, the concept of intellectual property rights has become one
>>  of the key battle lines of our times. IP is at the core of big
>>  industries from IT (including hardware and software) to entertainment
>>  (music, film and books) to pharmaceuticals and biotech. A handful of
>>  high profile cases such as Napster, DeCSS (DVD content encryption
>>  system), SDMI and the Russian eBook hacker recently arrested in the
>>  US have highlighted this battle.
>>
>>  The idea that IP rights should be rigidly enforced around the world
>>  through patent and anti-piracy laws is hotly contested by a growing
>>  alliance of researchers, open source developers, crackers and
>>  hackers, artists and intellectuals. The patent law applied on plants,
>>  seeds and other natural resources is further contested as biopiracy
>>  by environmentalists. The purpose of Kingdom of Piracy <KOP> is to
>>  consider the law and order provisions surrounding intellectual
>>  property in the context of geographical and cultural borders, and to
>>  examine the changes and challenges presented by information
>>  technology.
>>
>>  The concept of intellectual property rights has no history in Asia.
>>  The recent show destruction of millions of pirated CDs and DVDs in
>>  China, a preliminary to the country's entry into the WTO, does not
>>  change the fact that much of the Asian continent is still operating
>>  completely on its own terms. The burst bubble of dot-commerce in the
>>  early 21st century has plunged Taiwan and Asia's electronic supply
>>  industries into recession, keeping the divide between Western and
>>  Eastern economies as wide as ever. The Kingdom of Piracy will
>>  consider this digital divide, and its sustaining strategies, from a
>>  global perspective. Theorist Arthur Kroker speculated in 1994 about
>>  'digital abundance', imagining Taiwan as a tetra-gigabyte data
>>  heaven, 'the largest data storage dump in the virtual world'
>>  (ctheory.net). <KOP> envisions a virtual free state outside of
>>  geography, time, corporate power and sovereignty; a decentralised,
>>  fragmented, immanent entity in which everyone can be an autonomous
>>  agent.
>>
>>  The Kingdom of Piracy is everywhere: on the fringes and in the
>>  mainstream high-tech economies, from Asia to Eastern Europe to the
>  > data havens of Sealand and hackers' garages in Silicon Valley. The
>>  digital commons is bathing in millions of MP3s and an endless supply
>>  of warez. Codes for appropriation, cut-and-paste, replication,
>>  sampling and remixing have long been established as artistic
>>  practice. <KOP> challenges artists, writers and practitioners to use
>>  these techniques to question, contribute to, analyse and otherwise
>>  address this growing Kingdom. It also asks them to become intimately
>>  involved in the processes of the Kingdom itself, a place in which all
>>  productions are part of an innately collaborative, derivative and
>>  intimately interconnected environment of intellectual 'properties'.
>>
>>  Sponsored by Taiwan's Acer Group and hosted by Acer's Digital Art
>>  Center server, Kingdom of Piracy invites allied crews of crackers and
>>  artists to plug into the supply lines of digital abundance. The
>>  <KOP>site will be an active public sphere for global data
>>  trafficking, descrambling and jamming. Commissioned works are
>>  encouraged to engage in acts of piracy for the causes of intellectual
>>  enhancement and poetic intervention.
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